[ovs-dev] OVN: Fix failures after OVS/OVN split

Aaron Conole aconole at redhat.com
Mon Apr 29 20:28:22 UTC 2019


Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> writes:

> On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 01:59:34PM -0400, Mark Michelson wrote:
>> With regards to the bot, it's probably best to not have it watch commits to
>> the ovn repo until we switch over to doing full-time development on it. As
>> of right now, the patches that will be going up on it are build system
>> improvements, deletion of irrelevant code, etc. In general, they're not the
>> type of thing that the bot really needs to concern itself with.
>
> I think one of the questions is how the bot should distinguish OVN and
> OVS patches.  This is also an issue for humans.

Yes, disambiguation is the difficult part.

> I suggest using [PATCH ovn] in the subject, e.g. --subject-prefix='PATCH
> ovn' when invoking git send-email.

I like this approach, since it will be easy to parse it out and kick off
a separate OVN-dedicated bot.


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